There are several really good moments in this film, and an overall unnerving tone that, if you are in the right mind-set, might work well for you. In particular, I found the opening scene to be quite effective, and the Ouija board scenes to be excellent.That said, there are some things that really drag the film down. The plotting is inconsistent; I think the film could have been dramatically improved by putting the character development more into the first half rather than the second half (or, perhaps, cutting some of it entirely), and the consistently shaky camera was distracting to the point of taking me out of the scenes. Often, filmmakers use hand-held cameras to make it feel more authentic, but in this case, it felt like it broke the "fourth wall". Perhaps a steadicam was out of their budget, but I doubt a tripod would have been, and would have helped tremendously. The use of Super8 film was pretty interesting, and had me trying to figure out why the movie looked different (until I looked it up online.)Also, there are some strange plot holes, and odd choices by some of the main characters. If you were attacked by an evil spirit, would you have fun the next day?!?! Not leave?!?! It's not like they were trapped there. Additionally, right after the extended and creepy Ouija scene, there is a long stretch of movie where very little happens outside of getting to know the characters better. Which might be okay if the payoff at the end were particularly effective, but it just didn't work for me. I liked - parts - of the end, in particular the way the victim was discovered by the protagonist, but it just didn't pay off the long wait to get to.I think a different edit would help things out a lot, although I'm not sure what could be done about the jittery camera-work. I did find the actors to be believable and interesting, and I liked the music, too. Nice start by the filmmakers and crew, but mixed. Still, I'm writing this review the next day, and have been thinking about the film a lot, so that has to count for something.

This film is just awful. I've never felt so compelled to write a review on a film before, but I am Zozo or Are You There? is probably the worst horror I have ever seen. Literally nothing happens in the film, no jumps, no scares, nothing flying across the room or unexplained phenomenon? The acting is dreadful, the characters are boring and dull and the music is all over the show. I don't think the film was supposed to be a cam film but it looks like the cameraman had a skinful before filming with his home entertainment set, maybe he had some of that "super moonshine" with them.Seriously, how have some people rated this as a 10? You must be very very easily scared. Give this a miss people unless you want to waste 90 minutes and then a further 20 scratching your head in disbelief.

This movie is so very not-good. I usually enjoy Ouija board films, which in general are usually not considered 'good', but I could not enjoy this film. I was very intrigued when I first heard of it, after reading and hearing stories of the infamous, notorious entity named "ZoZo"... oh man this is like the kind of film you would relax to. For real. I wanted to 'get the story', I wanted to understand it and I fell asleep several times while trying to watch this very boring immaterial film. I finally did manage to finish it off, but I will never watch it again unless I'm having insomnia. The filming and music is just awful too. Many times there is a long scene of just nothing, it is hard to hold attention, and you catch yourself trying to entertain yourself in some other way than this boringness, and when there actually is dialogue relevant to this very irrelevant film, you miss it. It is spooky at a very minimal level. It feels as if no effort was really put into this. I give 2 stars for using a very beautiful antique Mystifying Oracle board in this film.

I'll keep this short. As the film opened, I wasn't exactly optimistic, but I was willing to give it a chance. It seemed like my patience was being rewarded when we got to the Ouija board scene. It was a long scene, but didn't feel padded. It took its time in building up tension, and it succeeded. That scene alone was nicely creepy. I was looking forward to the rest of the film building off of that, but that never truly happened.Instead of taking the ball that scene provided and running with it, the film decided to spike the ball and kill any real momentum they had going for them.It's very disappointing when a film shows you glimpses of potential and then fails to live up to it.